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for enjoyment I used to memorize the NDC numbers for most of the medications in the pharmacy i worked at.
When i need to remember a phone number i simply look at the number or hear the number then takes 10 seconds and it is stored ...for a long time . if i never use or think about the number again --it will still be in my memory for about 2 yrs....until about 2 yrs goes by ..could not forget it if i wanted too.

also i can process audio data from text to speech using att crystal voice as the reader very very fast ---if they are Pubmed research article /PMC research papers. (speed 6-8 on textaloud TTS program) ..for hours and hours ..
.... BUT if it is poetry or general fictional reading --then can only listen to it at speed 0-2.

VERY STRANGE....no good explanation for that.


guess i am quite the weirdo

I also randomly read signs, like speed limit signs, store signs ect out loud when walking around, don't think most people do that.

-wanting to be alone unless I'm with someone I am very close to.
-wanting to minimize all of my belongings.
-sensory overload after completing a small amount of practical tasks.
-needing to be isolated in a room with no more than one person at a time.

^^ having these things get more pronounced over time.

I am genuine

1. I can process things via my auditory senses. Basically, I can be watching TV, and I don't have to be looking at it. I've also discovered this in school too. I was able to absorb what the teacher had said during classes, then I would ace all the tests I was given.

2. I can use writing to express myself. An example of this is where one time I told my psychiatrist via my iPad about the depressive anxiety tendencies I was having. I was able to explain it in written form rather than just telling him and stumbling on my words each time.

That's all I can think of right now.

Few people are aware of the massive downgrading in recorded sound quality that has occurred over the last few decades. I think that recorded sound quality on retail distributed media peaked with LP's.

On vinyl's of Julian Bream playing classical guitar I can hear his fingers sliding along the strings, which is far more consistent with the real sounds you would hear if he was sitting in front of you and playing. At one point you can even hear his chair legs squeak as he shifts his weight. I have then played the same piece by him on a CD and you get none of the extraneous noises that are the reality of his playing.

If I close my eyes whilst listening to an LP then he is there playing for me, never happens with CD's. I wonder if the ability to focus on particular sounds is an Aspie trait? Some NT acquaintances completely miss all the real sounds that tell me it's a human playing and not a machine.

The audio quality of mp3's, iTunes and similar are absolute rubbish in comparison to even a good CD.

Sorry for the thread drift.

Regarding the OP: I don't count, but I'm constantly doing math in my head. Like, if I hear someone say they started working in..... whatever year, then I do the math, and think the answer. If they say they've been driving for 15 years, I do the math to find the year they first started driving. If I know their age and they say "I started doin' that, when I was 8 years old", I do the math to find-out how many years ago, that was. If I see a pie in a restaurant, I'm like (to myself): "Oh, a third of it has been served, already". If I see a tray full of cookies, I quickly figure how many are there by multiplying rows by columns (THAT could actually be counting, I guess----but, I don't go: "1, 2, 3, 4....", I have to do the math). Everyone, of course, always has me figure the tip, at a restaurant. I'm just ALWAYS figuring----even if I hear someone say something on TV, in a movie, or read it in a book----I just can't help doing the math. I think that, ALONE, makes me different!!

Similar to the OP's numbers ability, I have massive quantities of quotes from movies and TV shows stored inside my head. I can spout reams of dialogue from almost any movie I've seen at least twice, and frequently go around muttering my favourite lines to myself under my breath. I'm sure I look like a crazy person, but it's fun. My mom loves it when I deliver Howard and his mother's lines from The Big Bang Theory; she thinks it's hilarious.

Just the obvious Autistic stuff. I prefer to do things by myself. That includes activities usually associated with other people movies, travel etc. I am at the theater to watch the movie not talk with you.

Intense narrow interests. Even weather enthusiasts have not watched the same hurricane video enjoying it each time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b21g-5YBLs

I got my private stims

I remember phone numbers from when I was 5 and 6 years old, from elementary school, to mom's first cell phone, to my neighbor's house, to my sister's best friend (This was in the days of Caller ID and land lines, mind you) and even today - I remember all the trailers and gears I pull at work. I remember the tracking # of the first shipment I ever picked up at work. When I was 12, I organized about 1,000 hot wheels cars in order of their number, from highest to lowest. My favorites happened to be #54322 and #29290. Had all the bus route, fleet # and so on memorized by heart in high school, too. I usually got stuck on 5138.

Just incredibly autistic when it comes to numbers, I guess.

Body language. XD

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There'd be plenty of people out there like me.

Obsessed with powerlifting.

Being able to remember lyrics in songs and remember phone numbers.

reading very road sign I see.